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In a fuguelike scene, Edith is “on fire and still alive, when I knew I would see the other side, and you opened the mask. Behind it, appalling, extracting endlessness.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 17, 2021
But do Carol’s fuguelike depression, Anna’s psychosis and Bonnie’s clenched anhedonia really share DNA?
From New York Times ● Feb. 18, 2020
John Coltrane exhibits the fuguelike concentration that his music demands, just as Erroll Garner’s permanent smile and bouncing fingers underscore his music’s elegant playfulness.
From New York Times ● Nov. 29, 2018
And before you know it “Transcription” has turned from a wartime spy yarn into a fuguelike meditation on the fungibility of female identity.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 17, 2018
Essays impersonating an autobiography; six chapters of sad, fuguelike repetition.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
